UDAY BHANU PRASAD MADALA

Enterprise IT leader with over 20+ years of success leading diversified IT projects: 7 years of solution and enterprise IT architecture, 13 years of IT management and strategy. A Business Strategist: Responsible for planning and implementing IT infrastructure for big projects aligning with Business objectives. Including vendor management, resource management, IT acquisitions, IT CAPEX/Budgeting, procurement, and asset management. Enterprise Architecture: EA with 7 years of experience. Analyzed and developed technical solutions and architectural approaches to complex business problems. Responsible for enhancing the Enterprise Architecture practice at a $1.7 billion global data-driven marketing technology organization. Facilitated collaboration between Applications, Infrastructure, Analytics, and Business to develop a technology strategy for growth. By adopting IT Governance, Consolidations (Cost and Technologies), Assurance, As-Is, and To-Be. Infrastructure Security Management: Information & Cloud security, IT risk management with a focus on security, performance, and reliability. Security incidents handling, enhancing current system security measures. Spearheading, client annual security audits, IT compliance audits. Standardizing security standards and practices throughout Organization. Internal vulnerability and exploit scans for all applications, remediation with recommendations, conducting external penetration testing by third party vendors. Operations Management/Engagement: Includes people, process, cloud management, virtualization & containerization, capacity planning, security management, DevOps and automation, change management, release management, and IT service management. Effective communicator: Leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate well with client executives and their teams.